Thriller recommendations that would screw your head until the very end
I have been reading many psychological thrillers ,crime fiction for the past months, and I have been stuck on this genre, when I got it introduced by the two girls I met in 12th grade ;
here are some to keep you hooked , guessing and sleepless :
1. Before I go to sleep by
sj watson
This novel follows a women who has been suffering from amnesia, where she loses memory of most part of her life , when she goes to sleep and wakes up the next morning, there’s nothing she can remember, she keeps a journal to record the track of her lost days; I enjoyed this book a lot, the writer has done a great job i don’t why people aren’t talking about it but the writing style is gripping, the sudden flashes of memory, whom to trust or not, the complexity of characters , the plot twist and the end are well written!
2. The housemaid by freida McFadden
Honestly, many people know about this book there’s a lot much of hype on the internet, it has also been adapted into a series ; this was my first book by the author , it follows this woman whose an ex convict called millie, she gets the job of a housemaid in the luxurious house of nina Winchester ; as it begans it gave me the chills,when millie enters the air seems off there are dark secrets to be revealed of the family, there’s a reason why the housemaid is here ;
It can get slow at a point but once it gets a grip, it’s gonna unlock many wires of your brain.
3. My husbands wife by Alice fenny
The all time page Turner, it’s like the author leaves bits of suspicion mystery at the end of each chapter,it’s captivating for sure ; too many truths to connect, this story begans with eden fox who goes for a run in the morning in hopefalls, when she comes back she finds that her husband doesn’t recognize her, that there is some other woman, the other eden whose “her husbands wife”
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on the other hand birdy the woman who lived in spyglass months before , as she inherited it from her grandmother she didn’t even knew existed.
Too many truths to connect!
4. Tell me you dreams by Sidney sheldon
A story about three women, ashley, toni and alette; who have their own different lives, three very distinct characters from each other ;
But as they are linked to each other in the murders investigation taking place, the truth comes out through a bizarre trail ;
this follows the aspect of Disassociative personality disorder.
5. The girl on the train by Paula hawkins
This books has got real good reviews throughout the internet, and it’s well written ; however I found it quite predictable ;
the story follows a 33 year old woman rachel who is an alcoholic, struggling shes catches the commutor train every morning and passing by Blenheim road she looks at the perfect lives of two couples which she names jess and Jason ; as later one of them dissapears & this becomes an obsession for rachel she digs deep to uncover the truth which might involve her
